The weekend The Districts released their latest album, Popular Manipulations, a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville occurred, ending in violence. The country was sent into shock, looking for some sort of leadership from our President, but found none.

Lauren Early is a singer-songwriter currently based in Los Angeles. She’s toured in Girlpool and Surf Curse. Her debut EP Patience comes out May 24th. Catch the premiere of her music video “Lemon” along with her conversation with friend and artist Maren Karlson.

Dehd started as an excuse to go on a really long date. Emily and I first met playing a show together at Cafe Mustache in Chicago. After, we'd run into each other on tours between Chicago and Atlanta. We wanted to go on vacation so we wrote a couple love songs and booked a tour.

Last September, Emily Massey, Alex Leeds, Henry Stoehr, and Teddy Matthews made their way to Chicago to start a new chapter with their dream punk group, Slow Pulp. Filing into a studio on a snowy day in Brooklyn, we sat around on floor pillows and fell into a discussion of describing the world in colors and what it means to have people in your life who you are so deeply connected to.

Born in the US to a Jordanian father and Palestinian mother, Rand Faris left the United States at age six to grow up in Jordan. “The Reality is: Part 1” is the first out of a series of three. There are pieces that are birthed from fingertips and some from pencil tips. These are an unequal mixture of both. It’s used to pull myself back after I find myself drifting away into my stream of thought.